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Bletchley Derailment

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XCDriver said:
Cheers for that. I hope what I am thinking happened isn't what has happened in reality :(
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No worries. Thankfully it doesn't appear to have been too fast a derailment but I wait for confirmation/more details before any further speculation.
 
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If it did cross from the Up Slow to the Up Fast, it should only have been doing 15mph through the junction.
 
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466.networkers said:
Notice the attempts at humour that are just purely idiotic in the comments ... :roll:

Hope the driver is ok, and the loco is re-railed asap. Never seen LDBs so red before ...
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You didn't see the DBs at MAN when the ash cloud hit then... I have a picture of that lurking somewhere...

Either way, shouldn't be too difficult to re-rail and thankfully it stayed upright.
 
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Eagle said:
Of course you'd've needed a loco swap to do that.
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I meant passengers to make their way via Leeds on a day train, but it would be nice if the network had the flexibility to send the whole train that way!


 
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The 1212 departure from Stoke is showing as going via Birmingham and arriving into London 55 minutes late - everything else on Stoke's current departure board is either cancelled or terminating at Northampton.

Any idea why going via Birmingham helps? I don't think this train would normally go that way!
 
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So am I right in thinking that VT are running shuttles between Tring and Euston even though they don't really have to? Good on them if so.
 
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This is an interesting calling pattern... :?:

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(I have legit access to the departure boards so I can post this screenshot)
 
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Keele13 said:
The 1212 departure from Stoke is showing as going via Birmingham and arriving into London 55 minutes late - everything else on Stoke's current departure board is either cancelled or terminating at Northampton.

Any idea why going via Birmingham helps? I don't think this train would normally go that way!
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At a guess, they are expecting 2 lines to be reopened by the time it gets to Bletchley and they are deliberately diverting it to make it a bit later, also to give Birmingham a service.

With LM having only 3 trains, i would of thought they had more stabled down in London - arent there any spare 321's at Camden ?
 
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